And he had.

mangos, and oh, the deliciousness of salmon.

So

managed to get out of the zoo without anybody noticing

like a used tissue,

If the humans in the zoo were gone

But one night, that fateful night, when he wasworrying that if he escaped the humans at the zoo, the humans back at the Forest might shoot him, and therifle and Forest appeared in his mind again, with a spinning wheel and the arrow spinning wildly, notsettling on anything round and round, and then the answer hit him in the head, so obvious that Bamboowas surprised he was so blind to this.

and did sit-ups to start his morning

He had spent his whole life

in the Forest for over 5 months.

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And, he had confessed that he didn’t like fighting as much as other bears do.When Bamboo was a cub, his father had taught him how to fight. Bamboo had failed dismayingly. He hadbeen starting to feel like a failure when he had left the zoo and went into the Forest.When he heard, Bamboo thought it was a miracle. He had always thought that every bear in the wholeworld loved to fight, to claw and leap and bite. But here Ark was, the leader of the greatest tribe in theForest, and he hated fighting

He had also been getting old, but prime nonetheless.

Bears brown and mighty

he zoo and of cour

Yes, he was born somewhere terrible

really

he admitted that shedidn’t want him to be fierce or aggressive.

Bamboo's greatest wish was to save the day. Swoop in, heroic music playing, and snatch the victim out ofthe villain’s claws, making big speeches about justice,

There was only one challenge left for him. You see, he was gazing at the Forest on a cliff across from it.There was a big gap between them. When he was little, he had found an old aqueduct leading down fromthe village in the forest to a river. But now since the river was dried up, they stopped using the aqueductand so that was how little Bamboo had gotten to the Forest. But years passed, and Bamboo was not thesame.

But

most

other marginalized groups. 

ends

W.E.B Dubois